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@all the brits
i haven't kept up to date on UK politics, is Tony Blair popular in the UK? when is the next election? please fill me in, as i'm sure this will be important to us Americans' "grand coalition"
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Posted: 2004-10-30 01:47:40
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@eric_emeralds
Blair isn't all that popular here, but he will probably win the next election, which is next year. The Iraq war has upset most of the population and I would imagine that that will cause Labour's majority to decrease quite a bit. The main opposition party probably won't benfit from many of those losses because they are also very unpopular It is likely that the third party, the Liberals, will increase their number of seats as will the smaller parties.
Who the Prime Minister is really won't have all that much effect on the US., that is unless the Liberals win the next election!
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Posted: 2004-10-30 01:58:52
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Tony blair is a lying tosspot,just like bush.all politicians are corrupt,and or masons!not got time of day for any of their lies and antics.
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Posted: 2004-10-30 01:59:02
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@k700nut
At last, an unbiased and objective viewpoint on politics.
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Posted: 2004-10-30 02:00:09
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@absinthebri
after all the research on what went wrong in florida in 2000 was finished, it was determined bush lost the state by
537 votes. it's still a loss, but 16 million people lived in florida at the time of the election. 537 out of 16 million is an incredible margin (0.003% to be precise) but the electoral college needs to be changed to allow states to split their electoral vote according to their popular vote. 2 states (nebraska and maine) can split their electoral vote already, and there is a referedum currently in legislation in colorado to allow their electors to vote according to the popular vote. incidentally, colorado is a traditionally republican state, but polls for today (10-29) show kerry with a 4 point lead there.
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Posted: 2004-10-30 02:03:54
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@scotsboy..always been anti-politics,and even more so anti-monarchy mate.just by observing blair & bushes idious body language\\gestures,and facial expressions...i could never,ever take a word from their mouths as truthful or serious!
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Posted: 2004-10-30 02:28:37
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@k700nut
I don't think Blair is particuarly deceitful, but I do think he was presented with poor intelligence I don't think it does anyone any good to be too cynical about politics, although I realise that that can be difficult at times.
I'm very much a royalist and I think the current system we have at the moment is actually rather good. We have been governmned by the same system, in one form or another, since Roman times and it seems to have worked rather well for us. I don't think monarchy itself is the problem, rather it is the fact that so few people are actually interested in the political process. So many people like to moan about politicians, but often offer very few practical ideas of how to improve things themselves.
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Posted: 2004-10-30 02:35:20
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@scotsboyuk
"So many people like to moan about politicians, but often offer very few practical ideas of how to improve things themselves."
i guess brits and americans have more in common than we think
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Posted: 2004-10-30 02:54:21
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@eric_emeralds
I think that is common to everyone who lives in a democracy.
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Posted: 2004-10-30 02:56:57
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I have just been watching coverage of the U.S. election on FOX News and I was grinning by the end of the O'Rielly Factor. He was actually promoting a range of clothing he is selling on the news! Talk about tacky.
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Posted: 2004-10-30 06:04:08
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